Quotes About Information

One of the rules of history is that people do not write about what is too obvious to mention. And so the information, having never been recorded, is now lost for ever.

Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history.

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.

When I am at home, I never watch TV, but when I am abroad in a hotel I take a look at the BBC to find out what's going on.

When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.

You collect as much information as you can and then you put it into the mulberry of your mind and hope that you come up with a decent wine. Sometimes you do; sometimes you don't.

When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?

We look forward to analyzing and working with legislation that will make - it would hope - put a free press's mind at ease that you're not being denied information you shouldn't see.

Communication is merely an exchange of information, but connection is an exchange of our humanity.

When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

Will the highways on the Internet become more few?

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

Wikipedia is the first place I go when I'm looking for knowledge... or when I want to create some.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day.

If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.

I know that to be a true fact because I read it in Heat magazine

But nowhere in the file had anyone said, "Oh, and by the way, he runs like a gazelle with an espresso addiction." At least not in the parts I'd skimmed.

described the Internet as "a series of intestines, laid out by a goatherd's son, spewing bile at both ends

There is new information.""Are you going to share it?""No."Of course not. Because it would totally ruin his whole mysterious vibe. Can't have that.